Library cuts 31.12.07.-25.04.10

31st December. 2007-April 25th, 2010.
A report in the Independent at the time discussed the worying decline in the number of libraries in Britain. 40 were closed in 2006. Others have faced staff cuts and book shortages since then. Many have responded by providing DVD and CD loans and internet facilities.
In 2009, the magnificent Birkenhead Central Library( opened by King George IV with the Mersey Tunnel) and eleven others were threatened with closure by Wirral Borough Council. There was a temporary last-minute reprieve.

Reading at reading
will cease if library cuts
prove final chapter.

Stiff cuts, staff cuts as
libraries are brought to book,
lines drawn under them.

The writing's on the
wall; death sentence is prepared
for our libraries.